San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-06-30
EDITORIAL BREvITIEs


a good demand for American cereals this
| fall.
The LOUSY lie Medical college turned
| out seventeen graduates hailing from
Texas, among it's last batch of hatch and
despatch agents.
TOMORROW you can mail your letters
TO Mexico for the same postage stamps
that will carry your letter on this side OF
the Rio Grande.
A GOOD paper mill in San Antonio is
needed. Ii would pay good return on
| the investment The raw material and
the market are here. Now is the time
to put the plant on its feet.
The ability of Texas detectives to deal
with a gang Of train robbers has not
been displayed this year Of grace, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty
seven.
No MUSIC is permitted in any place
where liquor Is sold, or any screens in
side or outside the doors OF such places,
after today. By act of legislature, ap-
| proved March 20, 1887.
| SAN ANTONIO having made good her
| northwest extension will soon take steps
toward opening direct southwest eX-
tension. The Alamo city is not blow
ing, but keeps up general Precipitation.
just enough to give healthy exercise to
| her functions.
ToLLIvER may be dead, but his soul is
marching on, judging from the press re-
| ports, which intimate that the Tolliver
party is by no means dead and that a
new chapter In that Rowan county VEN
delta may be opened at any time.
KERsHAw's creditors have made Egg
glestOn general partner, and therefore
responsible for the firm debts which
amount to over s..Sl 100000. Eggleston's
property is tied up by injunction and the
| old mans cash will go where the wood
bine twineth. So much for illegal
| squeezing.
CONSOLIDATION of telegraph stocks,
| pooling of telegraph issues, and increase
| of telegraph rates seem to be the pres
ent order Why don't Uncle Sam take
charge of telegraph communication as
well as mail matters, and put II out OF
the power OF private corporations to tax
the transmission OF news?
| STANDARD OH has not deserved any
public sympathy. The conduct of its
| business has been piratiCal. lt has
swung the black flag In the face ofevery
rival, and the public as well. The strike
comes and the general feeling is not one
of sympathy The popular verdict is:
| Let them strike; who cares.
The Galveston News remarks that
| Mike Mcdonald, the democratic boss of
| Chicago, has retired from politics; con-
| graduates the democratic party on thus
| cleaning out its stable, but says there
| are no signs of Improvement in the re-
| publican party. The News does not cor
slider that it was the republican party
that retired Mcdonald.
The true inwardness of that Wall
street furry of last week develops anG
| turns out to be squeeze by Gould and
| Sage of Cyrus w. Field. their partner,
| whom they have compelled to drop 80
| 900 shares of Manhattan stock at a figure
| which will deplete his pocket book TO
| the tune OF several millions. There is
no honor among stOckthieves when
| man is thus slaughtered in the house of
his partners.
If THIS prohibition fOOlishness carries,
| selling whisky or beer becomes at once
| illegal. There will be no laws to pun
| sh the crime, however, until the legis-
lature meets and enaCts them. No IL
| cense can be demanded or collected
after the amendment passes, and one of
| its first fruits will be free trade and I'M
| restrained sales in intOXicants for at
least eighteen months after its passage.
| II these be the first fruits what will be
| the after fruits.
| THAT late raid OF Uncle Sans boys
after the renegade Apaches stands I'M
parslleled in the history OF such achieve
ments. An untlagging pursuit of over
fOrty-tive miles Of the toughest Arizona
country, without water, shows a power
of endurance scarcely human. This is
the only way, however, of running these
unprecedented coyotes to earth, and the
boys in blue" seem to have struck their
gait.
In losing II. NJ. HOxie, and A. A. Tai
madge, whose death was announced in
| these columns yesterday, Jay Gould has
| lost his two ablest lieutenants. The
captain himself is reported unfit for
hard duty, and it would seem as though
the beginning of the end was very like
| ~ at hand. Such strain upon all the
| vital forces cannot be borne forever
| Nature will have her reyenges, and the
| man who absOrbs the work and capital
Of a small kingdom of conflicting inter-
ests cannot expect long to hold the reins
| OF government.
The finding of true bill against
sheriff Thumm has undoubtedly done
much TO allay the excitement in this city
| lnclOent TO young hllubTDThnu'B uDIltne-
| is taking of. The ends of justice de-
manded this action, and it is matter of
cOngrstulatiOn that the fears Ofthe Eagle
Pass Times concerning the miscarriage
| Of justice in this case are not very likely
| to be realized. Certainly Medina
county grand jury has done its duty,
and the next judgment in the case must
come in due course OF the criminal trial
to follow.
AS was to be expected, there ia little
sympathy expressed by the press over
| Jake Sharpe's sickness. 1t is not
necessary to express sympathy with
crime. in order to show a feeling OF
| sympathy with man prevented by
sickness from giving that attention to
his defence necessary to protect his own
| interests. 1t is so easy to be an eX-
| tremest, so hard to run the lines between
and mete out exact justice. Sharpe's
OtfeDse was one that has usually been
considered bailable. and it was his con-
flDement in a close Jail at the time that
he was arranging for his defense that
has placed him at the mercy of the
| prosecution. The verdict Of guilty was
foregOne conclusion in the state OF
the public mind. The sentence is next
in order. or course a new trial will be
asked. In the meantime the agony of
his wife ana daughters will make that
cell in Ludlow street Jail perfect hell.
This ia the first case on record, in the
| American courts, of man being con-
| a. 6. T..